ARMY & NAVY: General Out of Range

Long accustomed to getting in and out of trouble on battlefield and
lecture platform, Major General Smedley Darlington Butler U. S. M. C.
dodged out of danger last week, popped back to safety. In a letter to
Secretary of the Navy Adams he deplored that his remarks before
Philadelphia's Contemporary Clubin which he told a story of Prime Minister
Mussolini's streaking heedlessly on after running down a small child
with his raceabout (TIME, Feb. 9)had "caused embarrassment to
the Government." He had understood, he said, that his talk would
be "confined to...